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Pictured are members of the Perry Middle FFA chapter who recently attended the Georgia FFA Day at the Georgia
National Fair.
Perry Middle FFA chapter attends GNF
Special to the Journal
Members of the Perry Middle FFA
chapter recently attended the Georgia
FFA Day at the Georgia National Fair.
The event was held Oct. 9 at the Georgia
National Fairgrounds in Perry.
The program, according to a release
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The Matt Arthur Elementary Mighty Knights for the week of Oct. 1 were chosen for being great examples of the
character trait of the week, “school pride.”
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The seventh grade music enrichment class at The Westfield School prepared a 30 minute musical called “S’ Cool”
during their eight week enrichment class. The students sang and danced to eight pop/rock tunes about being a
teenager. Westfield Chorus instructor, Donna Hooper, taught and directed the students who are pictured above.
Hilltop honors
bus drivers
Hilltop Elementary School recently
honored its schoolbus drivers.
Oct. 22 was declared Bus Driver
Recognition Day. The Food
Services Department of Hilltop
recognized drivers by preparing
breakfast for them along giv
ing them goodie boxes to show
how much they are appreciated.
Hilltop has six buses that serve
about half of its school population.
Pictured are Nutrina Whitehurst
and Mary Land, of Food Services,
preparing to hand out goodie
boxes to the drivers.
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Mighty Knights show ‘school pride’
Westfield students ‘S’ Cool’
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is designed for students in grades six
through nine to learn more and get
excited about FFA and agriculture edu
cation.
Throughout the day’s events, stu
dents were able to interact with Georgia
FFA area officers while learning more
about all that FFA has to offer.
Students also had the opportunity
to listen to a motivational speaker and
are able to enjoy the Georgia National
Fair’s midway in the afternoon. There
were nearly 1,800 students there to
discover the countless opportunities
available to them in agriculture educa
tion and FFA.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2007 ♦
Mossy Creek Middle School Honor Roll
Editor’s note: In the Honor Rolls run recently, one name
was left off the release submitted for Mossy Creek Middle
School's eighth grade. The eighth grade list is printed in its
entirety here.
Eighth Grade - Roxanne Bartz, Emily Bilcik, Collin Boyd,
Clayton Bridges, Chloe Cecchini, Leah Daughtry, Sylvia Epps,
Jonathan Fall, Dana Frazier, Travis Huttner, Zachary Kinsley,
Garrett Kline, Sara Koohang, Jacob Lukemire, Lauren Me
Cullough, Amelia Mercado, Tyler Mercer, Forrest Mercier,
Ashleigh Merlino, Christina Moffitt, Lauren Nuclo, Sabrina
Park, Sarah Pospisil, Madison Raley, Cody Reese, Clayton
Seigel, Karina Smith, Matthew Stagg, Jamie Terry.
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Beth McLaughlin, left, is pictured with Jennifer Caracciolo
from Forsyth County, who serves on the GSPRA Board of
Directors.
McLaughlin earns 5 awards
Special to the Journal
The Georgia School
Public Relations Association
recently honored Director
of Community and School
Affairs Beth McLaughlin
with five state awards at its
annual conference. Out of
23 K-12 and university sys
tem entries, Houston County
was the only system to win
the Gold for every entry sub
mitted. Three submissions
scored a perfect 100.
The following entries won
a GSPRA Gold award:
■ Prom Public Service
Annoucement, marketing
campaign category;
■ New logo and Logo Style
Guide, image/identity cat
egory;
■ The Houston County
Teacher Hall of Fame, special
purpose category;
■ Public Relations 101 for
School Transportation, spe
cial purpose category; and
■ “Welcome to the Houston
County School System”
recruiting CD, audiovisual
category.
Entries, according to a
release, were judged by a
panel from the North Carolina
School Public Relations
Association. According to Bill
Maddox, Georgia Partnership
for Excellence in Education
Communications Director
who coordinated the compe
tition, “Out of 23 separate
entries, Houston County was
the only one that scored a
Cash award
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The Houston County Career and Technology Center
received a $250 cash award from the Noon Optimist Club
recently to be used, according to a release, as a schol
arship for a HCCTC student. Shown is Sam Satterfield
of Satterfield & Dempsey Jewelers presenting a check
Desiree Palmer, HCCTC graduation coach.
clean sweep by winning gold
in every category entered.
The North Carolina judges
praised Houston’s entries as
some of the most profession
al they had ever seen.”
Maddox also comment
ed that the judges “just
raved about the Prom PSA
and would like to copy the
idea and use it in North
Carolina.” The PSA encour
aged students to make the
right choices during prom.
The Warner Robins High
School Drama department
participated in the campaign
by creating a commercial.
The judges recommend
ed that Georgia make it a
statewide campaign. “Have
GSPRA make this a state
campaign. We salute you and
your county for a great idea
that has a huge impact on
young people.”
Judges’ comments about
the other 100 percent proj
ects follow.
■ About the Logo:
“Excellent, top quality work!
Great logo! We love the col
ors. This is very impressive.
We like the guide book so
much we would like to copy
it. Promotes your system in
a very professional manner.”
■ About the Houston
County Teacher Hall of Fame:
“Magnificent program. Lots
of work went into this - we
know it was worth it. What
can we say - this is excellent.
We would love to try it.”
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